When feeding time comes around, there is nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

Love is a moment of stillness that sometimes a word can shatter to pieces. Or love can be a thing that endures, a rich, deep current flowing unending through the years.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.

One day I was speeding along at the typewriter, and my daughter - who was a child at the time - asked me, "Daddy, why are you writing so fast?" And I replied, "Because I want to see how the story turns out!